More Christ Episode One Hundred and Four: Jason Smyth: Athletics, Fatherhood, Overcoming Obstacles, Winning Gold, and God

Jason Smyth is one of the greatest para athletes of all time. The Derry born sprinter has the distinction of never having tasted defeat in a major Para- Athletics event since his debut at the 2005 European Championships in Espoo, Finland.

Jason has represented Ireland at 3 Paralympic Games including Beijing 2008, London 2012 and Rio 2016. Jason won gold medals in all three of his Paralympic Games do date winning the 100m in the T13 classification at each event and in the 200m in both 2008 and 2012 before the event was excluded from subsequent games.

Jason has been the most consistent performer in the world for the past 15 years and he is the World Record holder on both the 100m and 200m events. Jason competes in the T13 category for athletes that have a Visual Impairment.

Honours:

2005 European Champion Espoo 100m

2005 European Champion Espoo 200m

2006 World Champion Assen 200m

2006 World Champion Assen 100m

2008 Paralympic Champion Beijing 100m

2008 Paralympic Champion Beijing 200m

2012 Paralympic Champion London 100m

2012 Paralympic Champion London 200m

2013 World Champion Lyon 100m

2013 World Champion Lyon 200m

2014 European Champion Swansea 100m

2014 European Champion Swansea 200m

2015 World Champion Doha 100m

2016 Paralympic Champion 100m

2017 World Champion 100m

2017 World Champion 200m

2018 European Champion 100m

2018 European Champion 200m

2019 World Champion 100m

Follow him here:

https://twitter.com/smyth_jason?lang=en